Amazing design is seen in nature wherever we
look. If there is truly design, then there must be a Designer. Here are some obvious examples to which hundreds of others
could easily be added:

*
The web spinning ability of spiders and the capability of the web in entrapping
prey. "Spider silk is five times stronger by weight and vastly more
ductile than high-grade steel" (National Geographic, April 2008, p. 75).
"The power of spider silk lies not just in the cocktail of proteins that it is
composed of, but in the mysteries of the creature's spinnerets, where 600
spinning nozzles weave seven different kinds of silk into highly resilient
configurations" (National Geographic, April 2008, p. 90). "Strands
of spider silk are stronger than steel, yet they are able to stretch by
40% of their length before they break" (The Economist, January 31, 2009,
p. 87).
How could the amazingly complex spider have evolved by blind chance apart from
any intelligence? And, if it really did evolve, how did it eat and trap
prey during all of the thousands or millions of years that it would have taken
to evolve its web spinning ability?

* The radar system
of bats

* The
metamorphosis of a butterfly (an earthbound caterpillar transformed into a
beautiful flying insect)

The above
DVD is highly recommended. After viewing this video
presentation, it is difficult to see how anyone can believe
that the life-cycle of a butterfly originated by blind
chance and undirected processes apart from any intelligent
design.

*The metamorphosis of a frog with its aquatic juvenile stage (tadpole stage) and
its amphibious adult stage (air-breathing frog)

*The metamorphosis of a Red Eft salamander (as well as other species of
salamanders) with its terrestrial juvenile stage
and aquatic adult stage

* The division of labor in a honeybee hive, and
the dances that the bees perform to communication the exact location of nectar

* Photosynthesis of plants

* Flight in birds, bats and insects

The above DVD is highly recommended.
FLIGHT is a ground-breaking wildlife documentary. A look
into the animal kingdom from a perspective largely
ignored by television and the scientific establishment.
For instead of presenting a worldview based upon the
blind, undirected process of Darwinian evolution, FLIGHT
offers a compelling look at the design and purpose woven
throughout the fabric of life on Earth.

FLIGHT is highlighted by technical and artistic
excellence comparable to the BBC’s Planet Earth and the
Academy Award winning March of the Penguins.
Photographed in North America, Peru, England, Greenland
and Antarctica, the film brings together stunning images
and computer animation with cutting-edge research and an
original musical score to celebrate birds and their
incomparable ability to live in the skies.

FLIGHT also marks the launch of THE DESIGN OF LIFE,
Illustra Media’s new series of documentaries that will
investigate the wonders of animal biology and behavior
for evidence of supernatural intelligence and mind.

* The migration of birds and butterflies

* The ability of salmon to return to lay eggs in
the very stream where they were hatched

* "Toucan bills are a model of lightweight
strength (they can crack nuts, yet are light enough not to seriously impede the
bird's flight)" (National Geographic, April 2008, p. 75). Was
this remarkable design not really designed at all, but just the result of random
processes through time?

* The bomb producing chemical process of a
bombardier beetle: "Bombardier beetles have a high-efficiency combustion
chamber in their posterior that shoots boiling-hot chemicals at would-be
predators" (National Geographic, April 2008, p. 75). The
mechanism is highly complex, but put simply, the bombardier rapidly mixes two
chemicals (hydrogen peroxide and hydroquinone) and injects them into a
heart-shaped combustion chamber which contains mainly water. The beetle then
injects a third chemical (catalase) which greatly speeds up the normally mild
reaction to explosive force. The jet of mainly water/steam fires repeatedly out
through nozzles at a stunning 20 metres (65 ft) per second. Researchers
found that the beetle precisely times the opening and closing of the inlet valve
to its combustion chamber to avoid blowing itself up. It also seems to be able
to control the pressure and direction of the resulting jet with pinpoint
accuracy—at a bird, frog or other predator. Is such a complex system
the result of evolution and blind chance or the result of intelligent design?
Intelligent engineers have tried to mimic the bombardier’s remarkable combustion
mechanism in order to design better aircraft engines. However, they have
had difficulty duplicating this process because the combustion involved is
complicated by the catalytic processes associated with the muscle lining of the
chamber.
For further information see http://creation.com/bombardier-idea

* "The abalone (a rock-clinging mollusk) makes
its shell out of calcium carbonate, the same stuff as soft chalk. Yet by coaxing
this material into walls of staggered, nanoscale bricks through a subtle play of
proteins, it creates an armor as touch as Kevlar--3,000 times harder than chalk"
(National Geographic, April 2008, p. 79). Notice how the
writer of this article uses the word "creates" even though he believes this
creature evolved by blind chance, apart from any intelligent Creator. A creature
implies a Creator.

* The gecko can run up and down a tree in any
way, even with the head downward. People have wondered how this lizard manages
its gravity-defying locomotion. In reality, gecko feet are not sticky. They are
dry and smooth to the touch. They owe their remarkable adhesion to some two
billion spatula-tipped filaments per square centimeter on their toe pads, each
filament only a hundred nano-meters thick. These filaments are so small that
they interact at the molecular level with the surface on which the gecko walks.
But adhesion is only part of the gecko's game. In order to move swiftly--and
geckos can scamper up a vertical surface at one meter per second--its feet must
also unstick effortlessly and instantly. It was discovered that gecko adhesion
is highly directional: Its toes stick only when dragged downward, and they
release when the direction of pull is reversed (National Geographic,
April 2008, pages 82-83). There is not a man-made vehicle or robot that
can swiftly go up and down vertical surfaces with the ease of a gecko, even
though men are experimenting with robots patterned after the gecko to try to
accomplish this. How frustrating it must be to scientists and engineers
that blind chance is more successful than human intelligence! Evolution,
with no intelligence and without the benefit of a designer, can accomplish what
brilliant men fail to do in spite of all their mental efforts!

*Insect mouth designs: 1) A grasshopper
has a mouth that works like pliers. First it grabs a blade of grass. Then
it pulls off a piece to eat. 2) A fly has two
sponges on the bottom of its mouth. It uses them to drink. The fly
places the sponges on a liquid it wants to drink. Flies like sugary liquids
best. When a fly finds solid food it wants to eat, it spits on it!
The fly's saliva turns the solid food into liquid and then the fly can sponge it
up. 3) A mosquito has a mouth that works like a needle.
The female mosquito sticks the needle into an animal and then sucks blood from
the animal. How the mosquito survived during the thousands of years
required to evolve this "needle mouth" has never been explained by
evolutionists. Indeed, how could blind chance ever evolve such an amazing
blood sucking mechanism? [Information taken from Scholastic News,
May/June 2008, Edition 2]

* The human body with its nervous system, its
circulatory system, its digestive system, its reproductive system, its skeletal
system, its lymphatic system, its immune system, etc.

* "The cells of the human body can produce at
least 100,000 different types of proteins, all with a unique function. The
information to make each of these complicated molecular machines is stored on
the well-known molecule, DNA. We think that we have done very well with human
technology, packing information very densely on to computer hard drives, chips
and CD-ROM disks. However, these all store information on the surface, whereas
DNA stores it in three dimensions. It is by far the densest information storage
mechanism known in the universe. Let's look at the amount of information that
could be contained in a pinhead volume of DNA. If all this information were
written into paperback books, it would make a pile of such books 500 times
higher than from here to the moon! The design of such an incredible system of
information storage indicates a vastly intelligent Designer" [by Werner Gitt,
Creation Magazine, 20(1):6,
December 1997].

* Unique protective properties of animals such as
the skunk and porcupine and squid (emitting a spray ink which confuses
predators)

* The
tenebrionid beetle, a desert animals in southwestern Africa, lives in one of the
world's hottest, driest environments. "The beetle drinks by harvesting morning
fogs, facing into the wind and hoisting its behind, where hydrophilic bumps
capture the fog and cause it to coalesce into larger droplets, which then roll
down the waxy, hydrophobic troughs between the bumps, reaching the beetle's
mouth" (National Geographic, April 2008, p. 79). Isn't mindless
evolution wonderful?

How
can there be design without a Designer? How can design originate by blind
chance? How can random processes result in remarkable design?
If anyone were to claim that a computer had no designer, he would be called a
fool. How absurd to suppose that a modern aircraft had been produced
apart from any intelligence, apart from any designer! And yet, every
animals and every plant has functional systems far more complex than anything
man has ever made.

In the April 2008 issue of National Geographic
there appeared an article entitled, "Biomimetics--Design by Nature" by Tom
Mueller. Biomimetics involves applying designs from nature to solve
problems in engineering, materials science, medicine, and other fields.
Scientists study the amazing design in animals and plants in order to
learn how to manufacture certain products.

Although written by an
evolutionist, the article speaks of the "brilliant design" found in nature
(p. 75). It begs the question, "How can there be brilliant design
without a designer?" How can blind chance, apart from any
intelligence, result in brilliant design? How can random processes
"create" such brilliantly designed animals and plants?

Brilliant scientists are developing amazing products, not based on
their own creative ideas or inventions, but by copying complex designs
found in the animal and plant kingdoms. Here are some fascinating examples:

1) The boxfish has a sleek design. The contours of his
body allow him to swim up to six body lengths per second. The boxfish's
surprisingly streamlined form inspired Mercedes-Benz's bionic concept car
which is able to perform as high as 70 miles per gallon. Here is the
example of a modern car copied after the pattern of a small fish which
evolutionists claim originated apart from any intelligent design (pages
69-71).

2) The thorny devil lizard of the arid Australian desert is able
to convey water through its body to its mouth. All this creature
needs to do is find some moist sand, and the moisture will be wicked up
the lizard's leg and will make its way to its mouth. Scientists hope to
make a thorny-devil-inspired device that will help people collect
lifesaving water in the desert (pages 72-74).

3) Iridescence in
butterflies and beetles and antireflective coatings in moth eyes have
resulted in studies that have led to brighter screens for cellular phones
and even an anticounterfeiting technique (page 74).

4) Engineers are
pondering the bumps on the leading edges of humpback whale flukes
to learn how to make airplane wings for more agile flight (page 74).
In fact, dramatic improvements in airfoil design (design of fan blades,
etc.) have been inspired by the unusual geometry of the Humpback’s
pectoral fins.

According to Joan Wood,
sales coordinator for Envira-North, the WhalePower design lead to a
ceiling fan that moves 20 percent more air using half as many blades
as its previous models while consuming less energy. “Because of the
efficiency of the blades, our fans can be run at a slower speed,”
she says. “That translates to about 20 percent less energy required
to move more air than a conventional fan.”

The implications of the
Humpback-inspired design could be enormous, says Dewar, considering
that fans are an essential component in everything from computers
and microwaves to compressors, turbines and HVAC systems. While the
size of the global fan market is hard to determine, Dewar says
saving between 20 to 30 percent in power consumption, were
WhalePower’s fan blade design to become standard, could have a huge
cumulative effect on energy consumption world-wide.

“Look at the computer
industry alone” he says. “If you put together all the desktop
computers and servers in the U.S., they consume 5 percent of the
country’s total electrical generating capacity. That’s 50 million
MWh, 60 percent of which goes to power the fans and ventilation.
Imagine if we could cut that consumption by even 5 percent let alone
20 percent.” [from the article Whale of an Idea, Nov.
1, 2010, found at
http://www.design-engineering.com/features/whale-of-an-idea/,
accessed 3/26/15.]

6) Architects in Zimbabwe are
studying how termites regulate temperature, humidity and airflow in
their mounds in order to build more comfortable buildings (page 74).

7)
Japanese medical researchers are reducing the pain of an injection by
using hypodermic needles edged with tiny serrations, like those on a
mosquito's proboscis, minimizing nerve stimulation (page 74).

8)
Cockelbur--In 1948 Swiss engineer George de Mestral examined burs
plucked from his pants and from his dog's coat after a hike. He
found that the spines of the burs were tipped with tiny hooks. This clue
from nature enabled him to invent Velcro, which is widely used today (page
75). We would all agree that Velcro came about as the result of
George de Mestral's intelligence. Does it make sense to say that
burs came about by blind chance apart from any intelligent design?

9)
The metallic sheen and dazzling colors of tropical birds and
beetles derive not from pigments, but from optical features: neatly spaced
microstructures that reflect specific wavelengths of light. Such
structural color, fade-proof and more brilliant than pigment, is of great
interest to people who manufacture paint, cosmetics, and those little
holograms on credit cards (p. 75).

10) The Melanophila
beetle, which lays its eggs in freshly burned wood, has evolved a
structure that can detect the precise infrared radiation produced by a
forest fire, allowing it to sense a blaze a hundred kilometers away. This
talent is being explored by the U.S. Air Force (p. 75).

11) In
1982 a botanist in Germany discovered in the lotus leaf a naturally
self-cleaning, water-repellent surface. The secret lies in waxy
microstructures and nanostructures that, by their contact angel with
water, cause it to bead and roll away like mercury, gathering dirt as it
goes. This "Lotus Effect" has found commercial application in a
special paint that is reputed to repel water and resist stains for decades
(page 79).

12) The blowfly is being used as a model for a
miniature robotic fly that is swift, small, and maneuverable enough for
use in surveillance or search-and-rescue operations. With wings
beating 150 times per second, the blowfly hovers, soars, and dives with
uncanny agility. From straight-line flight it can turn 90 degrees in under
50 milliseconds--a maneuver that would rip the Stealth fighter to shreds
(page 82).

13) Why are sharks so speedy? An electron
micrograph reveals the sharkskin's secret to speed: tooth-like
scales called dermal denticles. Water races through the microgrooves
without tumbling, reducing friction. Naval ships may apply synthetic
coatings to their hulls copied after the amazing design of sharkskin (page
83).
Are we to conclude that the design of the hulls of naval ships will be
improved by copying the design of a shark, a design which is really no
design at all, but a randomly evolved structure produced by blind chance
over time apart from any intelligence? "A Speedo swimsuit
mimics the denticles on a shark's skin, reducing drag. Introduced in 2000,
the suit has helped competitive swimmers set scores of world records" (The
Week magazine, May 9, 2008, p. 38).

14) "The lotus leaf has a
unique way of causing water to bead and run off. By mimicking the leaf's
design, scientists have created self-cleaning coatings for cars" (The
Week magazine, May 9, 2008, p. 38). How can evolutionary
processes governed by blind chance design anything?

15) The
legs of a horse.
A horse can gallop at a speed of 50km per hour. Although this
requires considerable mechanical work, relative little energy is spent.
How is this possible? The secret is in the horse’s leg. Consider what
occurs when a horse gallops. Elastic muscle-tendon units absorb energy
when the leg steps onto the ground, and much like a spring, they return
it, propelling the horse forward. Furthermore at a gallop, the horse’s
legs vibrate at high frequencies that could injure its tendons. However
the muscles in the legs act as dampers. Researchers call this structure
a “highly specialized muscle-tendon design” that provides both agility
and strength. Engineers are trying to imitate the horse’s legs for use
in four-legged robots. However according to the Biomimetic Robotics
Laboratory of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the
complexity of the design cannot be easily duplicated with current
materials and Engineering knowledge.

How can blind
chance and undirected processes bring about such amazing life forms?

2) The Problem of Intelligence

How can intelligence come from non-intelligence? How can blind chance
result in intelligence? How can an intelligent human mind come from
mindless random processes? If there is no God, no original
intelligence, then where did intelligence come from?

The invention of flight on the
part of intelligent men is an example of how difficult it is even for
intelligence to produce an intelligent design. For hundreds of years
intelligent men tried to fly but their efforts resulted in failure after
failure. Finally, man succeeded. Why the success?

First of all the men who tried
to fly were intelligent. They had the ability to learn from their failures
and learn from the mistakes of other men.

Secondly, they had a pattern
to follow. They did not have to invent something that had never been done
before. They merely had to study other creatures who could already fly and learn
from their amazing design. They could study birds and learn how they fly,
and pattern their design, at least in part, after them.

With intelligence, and with
the pattern of birds available to them, it still was not easy, but finally after
much trial and error, the task was accomplished by the Wright brothers and mankind has been flying ever
since.

What about the birds?
How was flight "invented" with respect to the birds? How could this have
happened by blind chance, without any intelligence and without anyone following
an existing pattern?

And how could this miracle of
flight have occurred repeatedly, by blind chance apart from any intelligent
design? For you see, birds are not the only creatures of flight.
Certain mammals fly. Bats fly and flying squirrels can glide.
Paleontology teaches us that certain reptiles once flew. Numerous
species of insects can fly.

Furthermore, animals do not
all fly the same way. Each flying creature has its own unique design.
A hummingbird flies totally differently than an eagle. A bat does not fly
the same way
a mosquito does. The wings of a goose are totally different from the wings of a
bee. The wings of a dragonfly are totally different from the wings of a
butterfly. Every species which flies is unique. Although sharing
certain similarities with other flying creatures, each flying species has its
own unique design. To say that all this took place apart from any
intelligence by mere blind chance over time is difficult to accept.

Evolutionists, in their
theories of how flight evolved, debate whether the first flying creatures ran
fast and took off from the land or whether they climbed a tree and began their
flight by jumping off a branch. It is a ridiculous debate because if a
creature is not equipped to fly, then it will not have success either from land
or from a tree. An eagle is fully equipped to fly, and the eagle has no
problem taking off from the ground or from an elevated perch. The eagle
was designed for flight.

Are we to believe that the
process of natural selection is so intelligent that it is able to gradually
evolve a creature to the point where its body totally conforms to aerodynamic
principles and suddenly takes off and soars above the earth? Isn't blind
chance wonderful?

The Bible account of creation
presents a totally different scenario:

And God said, Let the
waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl
that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created
great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought
forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged flow after his kind: and
God saw that is was good (Gen. 1:20-21).

3) The Problem of Morality

Most atheists claim to have a
moral code, but their code lies on a shaky foundation because they suppose that
there are no moral absolutes. If there is no God and no moral absolutes,
then why is it necessary or important to live a morally upright
life? Who has the right to even define what a morally upright life
consists of? And why would one person's opinion of what is morally right
be any better than someone else's opinion?

Apart from moral absolutes no
one can declare something to be right or wrong. He can only share his own
personal opinion, which is no better than anyone else's opinion. If he
judges something to be wrong, that judgment is subjective and is based on no
objective standard. It is only what he thinks is wrong, and others can
easily disagree because they have their own subjective opinions.

Was the holocaust wrong?
Was it wrong for Hitler and his government to murder millions of Jews?
Those of a Christian/Judaic background say that it was wrong based on the
absolute prohibition found in the sixth commandment, "Thou shalt not murder"
(Exodus 20:13).
However, if the Ten Commandments did not originate from God (which is the
atheist position) and if they were the product of mere men, then they merely
represent Ten Opinions which are not grounded in any absolute truth.
Apart from absolute standards, no conduct can be absolutely condemned, no matter
how offensive it may be to some. Hitler felt that murder was advantageous
and that it helped to cleanse society of certain undesirable elements. He
was seeking to breed a superior race based on evolutionary assumptions.
Apart from absolute truth, how can anyone condemn Hitler's philosophy?

Most atheists probably condemn
the holocaust, but on what basis do they condemn it? They have no
objective standard by which to measure Hitler's conduct. All they have is
their own opinion, their own judgment, and why would their opinion be better
than the opinion of a minority of atheists who believe that Hitler was
right in what he did?

Atheistic communist leaders of
the 20th century murdered over 90 million people (65 million in China alone), and they justified these
atrocities because their cause was furthered. To them, the end justified
the means. If there are no moral absolutes, a person may feel that
something is wrong, but that is just his opinion. Others may hold to
different opinions, and if truth is relative, then no one opinion can be
authoritative. Each opinion has relative merit.

One might argue, "Society must
determine what is right and wrong. If the majority of people in a society
vote to condemn a certain practice, then it is wrong." But what makes the
majority better than the minority? Why is the opinion of many
superior to the opinion of a few? An opinion may be unpopular, but that
does not make it any less valid than the opinions that are shared by many.
Many ancient societies saw no problem with practicing human sacrifices. If
we follow this philosophy and say that morality is determined by the majority in
society, then we must acknowledge that at one time human sacrifice was morally
right. If
there are no moral absolutes, how can we condemn a society for anything they
practice?

Homosexuality was once
condemned by society; today it is condoned by society. Does this mean that
it once was wrong but now is right? Is it possible that in the
future it may become wrong again? If there are no absolute standards, then
nothing is absolutely right and nothing is absolutely wrong. People's
ideas of right and wrong keep changing because everything is relative in a world
that has rejected absolute truth.

If there are no moral
absolutes, then the concepts of right and wrong lose their meaning. You
may not like what I do, but you have no objective, absolute basis for condemning
it. All you have is your own little biased opinion, which is no better
than anyone else's opinion.

4) The Problem of Time and Survival

Evolution needs lots of time
to do its amazing work. Reptiles do not change into birds overnight!
Land mammals do not transform into whales in just a hundred years.
Evolutionists demand a long period of time for such supposed changes to take
place. The need for a long period of time should raise some problems for
any thinking person. Consider the following:

How did mosquitoes survive all those many centuries before they
developed the ability to extract blood from animals?
(And the same can be asked about the blood-sucking leech!)

How did
spiders survive for so many years before they evolved their web
making capability?

How did skunks and porcupines survive for so long before they
developed their unique ways of protecting themselves?
Why were they not easily devoured resulting in their extinction?

How did the whale manage to survive and swim in the ocean when it
was in transition between a land mammal and a fully functional ocean
creature?

How did the Venus Fly Trap survive before it evolved its ability
to capture and digest insects?

How did the chameleon hide itself from enemies before it evolved
the capability of camouflage?